What would it cost to us if we give up these bloody pace?
It has never been our choice to be born. It has never been their choice to fight. But they are made to do that as we’re all made to live.The first time they go to a war. They feel brave and invoke courage. They even don’t know from where they get their confidence. Their courage cover their fear and they position themselves as attackers rather than defenders. Their determination, shaped by the motivating and firm instructions they get from their superiors, lead them to believe that they will fight to win. At the same time, they ignore the nature of what they’re willing to get involved in. They don’t have any idea about it and always wonder how does it work and how will it end!In fact, decision-makers just take them from their motherland, where they were living peacefully, to another land in which they may forget the meaning of peace. However, they never surrender to the idea that by accomplishing their duties they will have to make inhuman mistakes.
Weirdly, the same process happens for a baby. Actually, once he’s born, the individual is supposed to get used to a strange world totally different from his mother tummy (motherland). Then, he felt token from a place, where he was protected and well-fed without any effort, to a sphere in which he may be subject to many dangers and in which he must express his hunger and his ill.
As a baby, he never knows how to act whether how to express his state other than crying. After some months and/or years, the baby becomes a child and then his story begins. The instructions of his parents and his entourage start to take place. It procures enough confidence for him to believe that this world is made to let people succeed and that it would be easy if he follows a specific path that seems, in the first sight, empty of obstacles. He also learns how to be in the attack position. But, he completely ignore the events that may occur in the future and the choices he’ll be obliged to make in this journey.
The war begins and the soldier feels the pride of representing his homeland. But, gradually he starts to stumble. His courage and braveness, gradually switch to a fear. He may be an attacker but, this, does not prevent him from watching people dying around him. The main question that may cross his mind is, why should we kill people? Is it really mandatory to reach the peace? At this point, he convinces himself that he’s in the battle place to accomplish his duty and there must be no place for these thoughts. However, inside of him, he could be sure that this kind of reasons is not prominent. It only gives him a motif to ignore the red lines. He loses his position and rather than fighting to win, he starts fighting not to lose.
Real life begins when the child grows up and holds some notions about values, about knowledge and about the necessity to take decisions. He learns in a way that will allow him to take the right decision in the best moment and choses to be productive in a particular field. However, whatever the field in which he’ll get involved he will notice that evil choices are essential. Later on, the worst happens when he notices that the basic human values such as peace, respect and ethics, becomes a cause that people fight each other for.
And then, the contradictions start emerging. He may note that people fight and kill with the alibi of seeking peace. He may wonder why that respect is restricted to some words and phrases we use in our talks and not in our actions. He may be shocked by knowing that ethics is not what builds the character of the human but only a means used for sales pitches.
At this point, fear takes its place in his heart, his thoughts and his decisions. He begins to stumble, to deny the values he has learned and to create a sphere that adheres to conflicts and that leads him to overcome the red lines. Therefore, he loses his confidence et starts looking to position himself again.
Obviously he’s not fighting to win anymore. He’s fighting not to lose. He’s fighting to save his colleagues and to reduce the number of killed people among his team. The soldier goes back and starts to defend and that would be the reason behind every wrong decision he will take further. In fact, in a defensive position, he knows that he’ll be worn by revenge. His heart gets filled by hatred against his ennemies and unfortunately makes him commit a lot of mistakes. He begins to see all other people as ennemies and do not care if they’re soldiers or civilians, men or women, adults or children. All what matters for him is to carry out a damage which is much more huge than what the enemy makes among his fellows.
The child becomes an adult and starts building his own definition of life. He obviously takes a good decisions as well as wrong ones. Yet, these latter influence him and make him hustle from time to time. He leads off a questioning process, in which he would assess all the reasons behind any a little failure or a hindering. Therefore, even people that were involved in his choices will be questioned. Distrust settles in his mind and identically to the soldier, he starts considering other as a danger. Then, he positions himself as a defender as well.
He acts to protect himself and forget about every idea that claim he will succeed if he follows the right path involving the right people. He evolves having the impression that he’s fighting against a range of people, systems and protocols he ignore the existence. He knows there’s something wrong but could never identify it and that pushes him to make more and more mistakes.
The soldier finishes the war, as a winner or as a loser, he feels the failure. He feels it as he remembers his dead – slew colleagues. He feels it because he kills so many people among which innocent civilians are numerous. He feels it because he knows that his life will change and that he’ll be afflicted by the war’s aftermaths.
The adult continues fighting and never stops. He never stops because he don’t know what he’s looking for. He regards others as ennemies and finds fake reasons to any evil act he commits. And even if he sets goals and achieve them, he feels always powerless over those people exceeding him and seeks to exterminate them. He never feels satisfied by his success but still compare himself to his incomparables so as to get this impression of failing. The consequences may be materially positive for him but he never feels delighted by his achievements as he opted for a path full of inconsistencies and immoral acts.
When analyzing this life’s flow. We could realize that both have not had the chance to make their choice. It was life and / or battle that imposed the pace and they could not refrain from following it and taking the train to nowhere.
This may be the result of the materialized spirit the world embodied in the souls of his adepts. Also, it may be resulted by people’s will to define the objectives without attaching the means. The smart ones of them define the means without confronting them to the moral rules because all what matters for them is the gain.
Unfortunately, this rhythm leads to great achievements that the world will never remember as it also leads to a premature end.
I really hope I’m exaggerating through this figures but every indicator I observe in our world claims that human is evolving towards hatred, wars and intolerance.
I really have the impression that everything happening is led by a mass of people to which we all belong but at the same time we ignore its composition. Among this mass in the shape of an elephant and the motion of a lion, we find some ants that act for a better world (to which I belong I guess) and that congratulate themselves for what they do. However, the truth clearly says that their voices still low and their actions don’t change this dangerous human side leading us all to a terrestrial hell.
I guess when Dalai Lama said « if you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito », he was sarcastically meaning that only disturbing actions could have a big impact. A mosquito impede the sleep and this, is a huge impact compared to its size. Governments conflict impede the life of many people in this world, and this, has also huge impact as it’s initiated by a small groups but mobilize many soldiers, many civilians and so many victims.
Well, it’s a totally ironic. But, what I would really say is that, unlike the bad impact that could be initiated by small groups, the positive change can and must be initiated by the mass as individuals having common universal values. Every single person must change its attitude and character by being subject to moral in its actions then we could reach the peace.
It’s not about being successful but it’s about being totally satisfied by our actions, our duties towards others and our involvement in our communities.
What we really need is what Pr David Orr stated in his book “Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World » through the following quote:
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
Moral courage and ethics are the only solution we have to change the world. Up to now, i’s a dream but I believe it’s feasible if everyone of us acts morally, care about others’ issues and help to build one homogenous community in this world. We all want to live in a peaceful world. So, We all have to spread love everywhere and toward anyone anytime.